Furniture

A George III bonheur du jour offered for sale at Roseberys (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) in south London provided a fascinating window onto the collecting tastes of the British aristocracy in the 18th century.

Auctions like this don’t come along often these days.

My local auction house Burstow & Hewett at Battle raised their status with remarkable singleowner collection (ATG No 2702).

French château contents sales, like their equivalent country house sales in the UK, still surface occasionally on the auction market.

Back in July 2019, Lawrences in Crewkerne set a new high for a Mouseman carving when a pair of elephant bookends by master carver Stan Dodds (1928-2012) sold at £10,000.

This stoneware pond by Robert Wallace Martin, measuring 6ft 6in (2m) across, comprises 40 architectural elements, each incised with fish and aquatic creatures among water weeds.

A fine example of French Art Nouveau furniture more than doubled its high estimate at Collective Hudson (30% buyer’s premium) in Kingston, New York.

Paxton House in Berwick-upon-Tweed has been reunited with an important Regency sofa it had lost for a century.

A recent sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) was led by this example of early English furniture: an oak aumbry or dole cupboard.

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds

Oxfordshire sale includes minaudière designed as an alternative to traditional handbags - plus a more conventional ‘French Jazz Age’ evening bag

Serendipity had it that two Regency pollard oak and ebony inlaid desks attributed to George Bullock (c.1762-1818) came for sale within a matter of hours on June 12.

The latest family generation to run Galerie Steinitz talks to ATG about the business and a landmark auction